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 * Topic: Space **

RL.2 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. RI.2 7.Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. 2.Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. 10.By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 5.Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. 9.Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. L.2 c. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves). d. Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told). a. Use collective nouns (e.g., group).
 * Common Core standards: **

Students will be able to understand, recognize, apply, and analyze the following skills:
 * Suggested student objectives: **
 * Text and graphic features
 * Possessive nouns
 * Classify/categorize
 * Response paragraph


 * Suggested additional readings: **
 * __Alien Neighbors?: the solar system__ by Angela Royston
 * __Astronaut: living in space__ by Kate Hayden
 * __Astronauts__ by Thomas K. Adamson
 * __Earth: our planet in space__ by Seymour Simon
 * __I Like Outer Space__ by Angela Aylmore
 * __If You Decide to Go to the Moon__ by Faith McNulty
 * __Moonshot: the flight of Apollo 11__ by Brian Floca
 * __NASA__ by Martha E. H. Rustad
 * __On the Moon__ by Anna Milbourne
 * __Reaching for the Moon__ by Buzz Aldrin

Journeys lesson activities Discovery Education - video about classification Brainpopjr - video about classifying animals Brainpopjr - video about possessive nouns Brainpopjr - video about reading informational text
 * Resource links: **

**Activities:** Student learning outcome: Use explicit information to answer questions about a fiction text. Duration: approximately 50 minutes. Necessary materials:

//Provided//:
 * Example chart
 * Independent practice worksheet

//Not Provided//:
 * __The Stories Huey Tells__ by Ann Cameron
 * Chart paper
 * Markers
 * Lesson plan

Teacher will read aloud from a chart that asks questions about explicit information in the story “The Rule,” in __The Stories Huey Tells__ by Ann Cameron (see Direct Teaching and Guided Practice Example Chart in Teacher and Student Materials below). Teacher will begin to read “The Rule” aloud. Teacher will note that the answers to the first three questions are “right there” in the text. Teacher will model answering the first three questions as the text is read. Ask: "How did I find the answers to the questions?" Students should respond that you first read the questions, then read the text, and looked right in the text for the answers. Teacher and students will continue reading “The Rule” in The Stories Huey Tells and answer the remaining questions on the chart as we read. We will read “Chef Huey” in __The Stories Huey Tells__.
 * ===DIRECT TEACHING===
 * ===THINK CHECK===
 * ===GUIDED PRACTICE:===
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Students will read “Chef Huey” from __T__he Stories Huey Tells and answer the questions as you read. (Student Independent Practice is provided below.)
 * ** ASSESSMENTS: **
 * ===INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:===
 * TIP:** Teacher may want to have students record the page that they found the answer to each question in the Independent Practice. This will insure that they are identifying explicit information from the text.

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